Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Peace is the goal for every country, community, and, hey, family. (See, we're funny here at BGIA.) In general, peace is the absence of war and violence. Through its work on the Global Peace Index and the Positive Peace Framework, the Institute for Economics and Peace takes peace and peace building further. It focuses on strengths not deficits and individual action on creating and sustaining positive societies.

Join us on Thursday, November 18 at 12pm for an hour long Positive Peace Workshop. In this workshop, participants will learn how to better think about actions and approaches to creating peaceful societies. It will focus on policy, strategy, and implementation. If you're interested in conflict resolution, policymaking, and peace building, don't miss this virtual event. RSVP required. 

Online Event  As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) presents a multi-day online conference exploring how Blackness has been framed, how Black artists are viewed, and how African diasporic art histories have been shaped through exhibition-making. Marking the first scholarly conference to focus exclusively on African diasporic art exhibitions in the US and the UK, Reshaping the Field will spotlight case studies that have disrupted narratives about Black art and artists through presentations by leading art historians and curators such as Bridget Cooks, Cheryl Finley, Serubiri Moses, and Marlene Smith among many others. The conference has been organized by Nana Adusei-Poku, Associate Professor and Luma Scholar at CCS Bard.

More info at can be found on our website here.

Presented by the Office of Student Activities, Gypsy Theatre, and Sewanee: University of the South
Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
What we know as Santeria is a rich, ancestral form of spirituality that has been around for centuries and brought by the enslaved people of Africa to the Caribbean. In this panel, we will break the stigma of Santeria and learn together about this ancient faith!

A Virtual Panel and Discussion with Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Kathleen Blee
Online Event  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Although white supremacist movements have received renewed public attention since the 2017 violence in Charlottesville and the attack on the U.S. Capitol, they need to be placed in deeper historical context if they are to be understood and combated. In particular, the rise of these movements must be linked to the global war on terror after 9/11, which blinded counterextremism authorities to the increasing threat they posed. In this panel, two prominent sociologists, Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Kathleen Blee, trace the growth of white supremacist extremism and its expanding reach into cultural and commercial spaces in the U.S. and beyond. They also examine these movements from the perspective of their members’ lived experience. How are people recruited into white supremacist extremism? How do they make sense of their active involvement? And how, in some instances, do they seek to leave? The answers to these questions, Miller-Idriss and Blee suggest, are shaped in part by the gendered and generational relationships that define these movements.
 Cynthia Miller-Idriss is Professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL).  
Kathleen Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.  If you would like to attend, please register here.  Zoom link and code will be emailed the day of the event. 

 

A conversation about activism and change
Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
George Floyd's murder in May 2020 shined a brutal light on racism and inequality, not only in the U.S. but throughout the world. It renewed energy into the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Today, BLM is widely embraced and conversations about how to end systemic racism have become mainstream. What changed? And how are activists working to build on this momentum and achieve change? Talaya Robinson-Dancy and Cammie Jones join us virtually on Thursday, June 24 at 12pm for the Chace Speaker Hour to discuss. Talaya Dancy was the Founder and President of the Black Body Experience Council at Bard College and was the co-head of the Womxn of Color United club. Cammie Jones is the Executive Director of Community Engagement and Inclusion at Columbia University. Please join us on Zoom. 
 

Screening and Discussion with Hisham Aidi

Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Hisham Aidi is senior lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is the author of Redeploying the State (Palgrave, 2008), a comparative study of market reform and labor movements in Latin America; coeditor, with the late Manning Marable, of Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave, 2009); and author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Pantheon, 2014). As a cultural reporter, his work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Nation, and the New Yorker. Aidi is the recipient of the Carnegie Scholar Award (2008), the American Book Award (2015), and the Hip Hop Scholar Award (2015. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, working on a project titled “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-Arab World.” His most recent documentary short is titled Malcolm X and the Sudanese.

Zoom Link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/84087117322

  Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Panelists include: 

Cynthia Conti-Cook ’03 - Attorney 
Kwame Holmes - Scholar in Residence, Human Rights 
Peter Rosenblum - Professor of International Law & Human Rights

ID Number: 899 7973 0035 
Passcode: 932913

  The Otolith Group’s INFINITY minus Infinity
Online Event  1:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Following a 72-hour online screening of The Otolith Group’s INFINITY minus infinity (2019), join a discussion about the film between Otolith Group members Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun and INFINITY minus Infinity performer Esi Eshun, moderated by Bard College Critic in Residence Ed Halter. Presenters: Anjalika Sagar (artist, The Otolith Group), Kodwo Eshun (artist, The Otolith Group), Esi Eshun (sound artist and performer), Ed Halter (Critic in Residence, Film and Electronic Arts, Bard College).

This series is presented by the Film and Electronic Arts Program and cosponsored by Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today, Africana Studies, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Bard Memetics Laboratory, Experimental Humanities, American Studies, and Written Arts. 

  The Black and Crazy Blues
Online Event  6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
A discussion on and between Black filmmakers working in experimental forms, moderated by film historian Michael B. Gillespie. “This program is a gathering of artists, curators, and scholars devoted to thinking about the aesthetic and cultural detail of Black film and media. Through the sharing of clips and ideas, these friends consider the complications and pleasures generated by the art of Blackness” (M. Gillespie).

Presenters: Michael B. Gillespie (film historian, CUNY; author, Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film), Kevin Jerome Everso (filmmaker, artist), Christopher Harris (filmmaker, artist), Greg De Cuir Jr. (independent curator, writer, and translator).

This series is presented by the Film and Electronic Arts Program and cosponsored by Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today, Africana Studies, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Bard Memetics Laboratory, Experimental Humanities, American Studies, and Written Arts. 

  Online Event  11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join students from across the OSUN International Network in a screening of Moolaadé, a 2004 film by the Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène telling the story of a woman, Collé, who uses Moolaadé to protect her daughter from female genital mutilation. 


Download: moolaade.pdf

We'll be in-person in NYC this fall!
Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join us to learn more about the BGIA program, our courses, internships and our in-person semester in NYC this fall.



To apply for  the fall '21 semester, please visit: https://bard.studioabroad.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=41053

Dr. Jamillah Karim
Online Event  6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Dr. Jamillah Karim, a foremost scholar of race and gender in Islam, takes us through the rich history of Muslim Women’s legacy in the Black Freedom Movement through storytelling grounded in academic analysis and family history, providing a window into how she interweaves her academic training and personal faith to present true images of American Muslim women and to portray Islam in America as a Black Liberation Faith.

Dr. Jamillah Karim is an award-winning author, speaker, and blogger. She specializes in race, gender, and Islam in America. She is author of Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam (with Dawn-Marie Gibson) and American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender Within the Ummah, which was awarded the 2008 Book Award in Social Sciences by the Association for Asian American Studies. She is currently working on a new book, Radical Love, where she explores the depth and beauty of divine and human love. Dr. Karim blogs for Sapelo Square, Hagar Lives, Race+Gender+Faith, NYU Press Blog, and Huffington Post Religion. In 2014, her scholarly activism was recognized by JET magazine, which featured her as a young faith leader in the African American community.  Dr. Karim is a former associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Spelman College. She holds a BSE in electrical engineering and a PhD in Islamic Studies from Duke University.

Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 844 6864 6575 / Passcode: 328029

Online Event  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
The Caribbean Students Association invites the Bard community to join a virtual live screening and panel discussion of the newest Jamaican Dancehall documentary, Out There Without Fear, by Bard student Joelle Powe. This is a multidisciplinary cross-cultural experience expanding into gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, theater, film, anthropology, sociology, music, Africana studies, history, preservation, and religion through the study of dance. 

Day 1: Panel Discussion – February 19 from 1 pm to 3 pm EST
Meet with the filmmaker and panelists calling in from Kingston, Jamaica. Musicologist Herbie Miller, iconic dancer Kool Kid, and internationally renowned choreographer Latonya Style want to answer your questions! The panel will be moderated by the documentarian, Joelle Powe. 

Day 2: Dance Workshop – February 20 from 3 pm to 4 pm EST 
Dance with two award-winning Dancehall celebrities, Kool Kid and Latonya Style.

Join Zoom here: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86881698188?pwd=R1FSVEtIRndaRFNMY202bzlMQzl1dz09
Meeting ID: 868 8169 8188
Passcode: 178132

Art . . . Dance . . . Classism . . . Violence . . . Sexuality . . . Homophobia . . . The Church . . . The Empowerment of Women . . . Blackness

Online Event  1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
The Caribbean Students Association invites the Bard community to join a virtual live screening and panel discussion of the newest Jamaican Dancehall documentary, Out There Without Fear, by Bard student Joelle Powe. This is a multidisciplinary cross-cultural experience expanding into gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, theater, film, anthropology, sociology, music, Africana studies, history, preservation, and religion through the study of dance. 

Day 1: Panel Discussion – February 19 from 1 pm to 3 pm EST
Meet with the filmmaker and panelists calling in from Kingston, Jamaica. Musicologist Herbie Miller, iconic dancer Kool Kid, and internationally renowned choreographer Latonya Style want to answer your questions! The panel will be moderated by the documentarian, Joelle Powe. 

Day 2: Dance Workshop – February 20 from 3 pm to 4 pm EST 
Dance with two award-winning Dancehall celebrities, Kool Kid and Latonya Style.

Join Zoom here: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86881698188?pwd=R1FSVEtIRndaRFNMY202bzlMQzl1dz09
Meeting ID: 868 8169 8188
Passcode: 178132

Art . . . Dance . . . Classism . . . Violence . . . Sexuality . . . Homophobia . . . The Church . . . The Empowerment of Women . . . Blackness